Chef Solo get user input

Question

I don\'t know why I can\'t find anything on the interwebs about this.

I basically want to write a recipe that prompts a user for their github username/password, then

Answer 1

I'd say chef is not made for such user input.

You might use ruby code that is executed during the compile phase of the chef run, but I'd suggest the following:

What about reading it from an environment variable?